About this ebook
We are lied to by our government, misled by the entertainment media, indoctrinated by our educational institutions, defrauded by our banking institutions, and subjugated by our employers. Nevertheless, we willingly grant these institutions power over nearly every aspect of our lives, and we even admire and assist those who are exploiting us. What is the purpose of the lies?
To con each and every one of us out of our property rights, and to coerce us into consenting to our own fleecingwhile venerating and revering the thieves.
This is true no matter if one is truly poor, or one is a member of the upper-middle class. It doesnt matter if you are black, white, Latino, Asian, straight, gay, lesbian, Democrat, Republican, employee, manager, small-business owner, or greyhound dog.
No matter how you earn your living, all those in the middle class have one thing in common. Like the greyhounds in a dog race, we have all been duped into pursuing an illusion, a goal that has been held in front of us as The American Dream, a goal that has been deliberately rendered unattainable.
This is because the act itself of chasing the rabbit is what enriches those few who benefit from our daily economic activity. Making the rabbit uncatchable ensures that we can never stop running after it.
If youre a parent who cares about your childrens future, if youre elderly and burdened with constant worry about surviving on a fixed income from social security, if youre a small business owner drowning in the quicksand of onerous taxes and crippling regulation, if youre a college student or recent graduate crippled with student loan debtstruggling or even unable to find a decent paying job, or if youre simply fed up with government lies and propaganda touting false hope and change for greater economic prosperity, financial security, and opportunityall of which remain perpetually out of reach
within these pages, you will learn what you can do about it.
About the author
F. A. Grieger is an aerospace engineer, entrepreneur, and businessman. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, finance, and international business economics. A first-generation American, he has started and sold several businesses, has run two privately held companies, and has lived both in Europe and the United States. He is the youngest of seven children, speaks three languages, and is entirely devoted to his family. A proponent of self-reliance, he grew up in a small family business where he started working at age twelve. As a young man, he worked as a bartender, bouncer, shoe salesman, road-paving worker, commercial diver, offshore oil-rig roughneck, SCUBA instructor, security guard, house painter, roofer, draftsman, computer programmer, and mental health technician, all in the course of working his way through college and graduate school. His mother is his greatest inspiration. It was from his parents’ remarkable life-story of courage, survival, and perseverance through World War II where he learned that adversity does not build character but rather reveals it.
